Herbert E. Hawkes
Herbert Edwin Hawkes had truly awesome hair. He was also Dean of Columbia College for a long, long time, helping pass through many of the reforms which helped build the Core Curriculum. A defender of the liberal arts, he opposed University President Nicholas Murray Butler's "Columbia plan" to create pre-professional tracks for undergraduates which would have allowed College students to graduate in less than four years.
A mathematician by training, he joined the faculty in 1910, becoming acting dean in 1917 and ascending to the full deanship a year later.
He possibly may or may not have made remarks that may or may not be later interpreted as anti-Semitic.
According to Wikipedia, his long tenure as Dean of Columbia College earned him the title "the dean of American college deans".
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| Preceded by Frederick P. Keppel |
Dean of Columbia College 1918-1943 |
Succeeded by Harry J. Carman |
